Great Websites and Resources

The following websites are great resources. I will more add more sites regularly, so check back often! Also, if you know of a great site that you use, post a comment to me – I would love to share it with others! 🙂

www.socialthinking.com – Michelle Garcia Winner’s website!!! Check this website regularly for all of Michelle’s books, other books published by Think Social Publishing, Michelle’s blog, and information about upcoming workshops.

www.5pointscale.com – The website for the one and only – Incredible 5 Point Scale and other books such as, A 5 is Against the Law, Learners on the Autism Spectrum, A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control, and the new Social Times Newsletter.

http://www.nationalautismresources.com/ – great web resource to purchase products for social skills, academic needs, visuals, sensory tools, etc. They also have have products to support autism awareness!

www.jambav.com – this is about another aspect of reading faces — following gaze. Click on “channel 9” for the game LukaHead, then click on “play game”. You can choose whether the child will be the follower (following Luka’s gaze and clicking on the circle he’s looking at) or whether the child will be the leader (clicking on the circle so Luka’s head will look that way).

www.autism4teachers.com – website with tons of information on many topics for educators. The website is created and updated by a group of 4 teachers from the central Florida area.

www.autismhangout.com– an online community designed to bring information on how to live with autism to family, care-takers, educators, medical professionals and others – Autismhangout also offers social networking opportunities similar to myspace and facebook to those with autism

www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix – a really fun interactive website where visitors can make their own comic strips choosing from a menu of a variety of characters. You can insert talking and thinking bubbles and even change the facial expression and body language of the characters you choose!

www.autisminternetmodules.org – here are FREE online Autism Internet Modules! They are well done and the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders (NPDC-ASD) is in the process of adding modules for all the Evidence Base Research they have done on Interventions for students with ASD. There are pre-tests and post-tests, power points, videos and articles to read.